He's eccentric, but not vulgar.

He's aristocratic to the tips of his toes--and English.

That accounts for his rudeness.
Sometimes, you know--only sometimes--Englishmen can be VERY rude! But I'd rather have them so--it's a sort of well-bred clumsiness, like the manners of a Newfoundland dog.

It's not the 'make-a-dollar' air of American men." "You are quite English yourself, aren't you ?" queried her companion.
"No--not English in any sense.

I'm pure Celtic of Celt, from the farthest Highlands of Scotland.